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Case 9:09-cv-80469-KAM Document 57 Entered on FLSD Docket 08/11/2009 Page 1 of 9

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA

NO. 09-80469-CIV-MARRA/JOHNSON

JANE DOE II,

Plaintiff,
v.

JEFFREY EPSTEIN and
SARAH KELLEN,

Defendants.
_______________________________________/

ORDER AND OPINION

THIS CAUSE is before the Court upon Defendant Jeffrey Epstein’s Motion to Dismiss

Plaintiff’s Complaint (DE 13), filed May 6, 2009. The motion is now fully briefed and ripe for

review. The Court has carefully reviewed the motion, amended response, and reply, and is

otherwise fully advised in the premises.

Background

On March 24, 2009, Plaintiff filed her Complaint against Defendants Jeffrey Epstein and

Sarah Kellen, alleging a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2255. (DE 1). The facts, as alleged in the

Complaint, are as follows:

During the events giving rise to this claim, Plaintiff was a minor but has now reached

majority. Compl. ¶ 4. Defendant Epstein has a history of enticing young women, who are

minors, and soliciting them to engage in prostitution for his own sexual gratification. Compl. ¶

8. Epstein conspired with two persons he employed for this purpose, Haley Robson and

Defendant Sarah Kellen, and others, to solicit young women of the type Epstein preferred,

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blonde, attractive in appearance, and younger than 18 years of age, to provide sexual gratification

for him by engaging in acts of prostitution. Compl. ¶ 9. Defendants Epstein and Kellen entered

into a criminal conspiracy to solicit young women for acts of prostitution, including Plaintiff, in

Palm Beach County. Compl. ¶ 10.

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